The track through Galicia

[Bruce McLean]

D & M Matthews wrote:

> This is my first contact
>
> My wife and I intend to walk the Camino in May 2003. I am a retired teacher,
> Marie is still active, on a casual basis, in alternate healing. We live on 6
> acres, 3 km from the village of Dunoon, which is 20 km from the little
> university/cathedral city of Lismore in Northern NSW. We are trying to
> re-establish sub tropical rainforest on our little property. We are
> experiencing a record drought, in the middle of summer, in an area more used
> to flooding rains.
>
> In Millán Bravo Lozana, "The Pilgrims' Road to Santiago, A practical guide
> for pilgrims," 1999, Editorial Everest, León, we get a tantalising reference
> to the track that was purpose built by the Xunta de Galicia in 1993 from
> Cebreiero to Santiago but I can find no other reference to it.
>
> Who will tell me the actual route of this path? Does it go via Samos?
>

You pays your money and takes your pick :-).  There are two waymarked routes
from Triacastella to Sarria, one via Samos.  As far as the purpose built route,
for the most part the marked route is separated from the road system, in places
this has involved the building of a separate parrallel "path", It is however not
continuous, the first stretch out of O'Cebeiro is along the road. I walked the
route bypassing Samos and it is a combination of farm roads, farm yards and
approaching Sarria a separated path. People I have spoken to who have taken the
Samos route reported no trouble.

Good luck